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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Pennies From Heaven
Early this morning I went to the soda machine to get a coke. I put my card in (cashless machines, sort of like college only my dad refuses to add any money to my card) and I start getting all these error messages. Error 11. Error 13. The last time this happened it erased $52 from my card and I had to find a supervisor to replace it, she did. So I took my card out, and pressed the button to see if I could at least get my soda. I did. All of a sudden the machine started going nuts. The window where it displayed the total on my card, $44.50, started counting down in intervals of 25 cents, and quarters started spewing forth. You know vending machines have very small coin return slots, so pretty soon quarters were rolling everywhere. I had to get a coffee to cup to hold them all. I felt like an old lady hitting the slots in Atlantic City. Turns out my card wasn't erased but I did have to carry around 50 pounds of quarters in my backpack.
That damned machine just made up for all the money its bretheren has (have?) stolen from people for years.
ReplyDeleteSo, I guess you owe me about $3.75. Give or take a few cents.
Josh, I never got mugged in Thornden Park, ran up and down the Vegas strip or went to the store. Then again, neither did you.
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